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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

24
October 2013Japanese civil society
requests that the reports of the United Nations
Scientific Committee on Fukushima be revised

1. Concern
for the reports of the United Nations Scientific CommitteeThe
United Nations Scientific Committee has inserted the results of
investigations on the effects of radiation exposure from Fukushima
Nuclear Power Plant Number 1 into its report, which will be
submitted to the 68th session being held at the
moment.We,
the undersigned civil society organizations in Japan express
serious concern that the results of these investigations contain some
problems in terms of objectivity, independence, and accuracy,
and that the underestimation of the effects of radiation
exposure could have negative effects on the human rights and
protection of citizens.We request that the United Nations
Scientific Committee and the United Nations General Assembly Forth
Committee revise the reports from a human rights perspective to
protect the most vulnerable people based on careful and
sufficient deliberations.The parts of the reports
which include the foremost concerns of Human Rights Now are
outlined as follows:· “The
doses to the general public, both those incurred during the first
year and estimated for their lifetimes, are generally low or
very low. No discernible increased incidence of
radiation-related health effects are expected among exposed
members of the public or their descendants.” (para.
39)· ”For
adults in Fukushima Prefecture, the Committee estimates average
lifetime effective doses to be of the order of 10 mSv or less,
and first-year doses to be one third to one half of that. While
risk models by inference suggest increased cancer risk, cancers
induced by radiation are indistinguishable at present from
other cancers. Thus, a discernible increase in cancer incidence
in this population that could be attributed to radiation
exposure from the accident is not expected. An increased risk of
thyroid cancer in particular can be inferred for infants
and children.” (para. 40)2. The lack of independent
investigationFirstly, the United Nations Scientific Committee has
never officially visited Fukushima prefecture to investigate after
the Fukushima nuclear accident. The estimate by the committee of
health effects, contamination, and the radiation exposure of workers
at the nuclear plant from radioactive substances are based only on
data given by the Japanese Government and Fukushima prefecture.[…]3. The
conclusion of the Committee lacks accuracyculates that the risk
for thyroid cancer for infants needs to be increased, they do not
expect an increase in risks for other kinds of cancer. This
contradicts the results of current epidemiological research which
indicates health effects of low-level radiation. The Radiation
Effects Research Foundation has released results of new LSS reports
that collect reports from 1950 to 2003 on the atomic bomb victims in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This research indicates that the excess
relative risk for all solid cancer increases with even low-level
doses of radiation.In research conducted by Cardis on six hundred
thousand nuclear plant workers in 15 countries, the death rate of
nuclear plant workers who are exposed to an average annual dose of
2mSv radiation is high.The International Commission of
Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, including BEIR, supports the
linear no-threshold model, which portrays low dose exposure
that is 100 mSv or less as a risk to health and does not negate
health effects due to low-level radiation exposure.The collective
reports of approximately six hundred and eight thousand young
patients who received computed tomographic scanning in Australia
showed that leukemia, brain tumors, thyroid cancer and many other
cancers have increased, and the infection rate has increased by
an average of 1.24 overall. Also, from a case-control study on
natural background radiation level exposure, it seems clear that as
accumulated gamma-ray exposure increases, the risk of leukemia
increases relatively, and if it exceeds 5mGy, the minimum of 95%
confident interval exceeds one share and becomes significant.
Moreover, with over 10mGy, the risk of cancer excluding leukemia also
[...]4. Inconsistency with other viewsThe United Nations
Scientific Committee observes that there is little risk to health by
radiation in Fukushima. However, this view differs greatly from the
prospects which are included in the reports regarding [...]5. The
actual conditions in Fukushima[...]Soon
after the nuclear plant accident in Fukushima, the Japanese
government relaxed the limit on radiation exposure from less than
1mSv to 20 mSv a year and decided to set this limit as a standard for
issuing evacuation advisories. As a result, many people, including
children, infants and pregnant women, have been forced to
live in high level radiation exposure areas with no support to
evacuate, migrate or protect themselves from radiation
exposure with sufficient health measures. The’Chernobyl
Concept’, which was established by the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics in 1991 and was followed in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia,
designated areas where additional exposure is more than 5
mSv/year as an ‘evacuation area’, and it provides
the people who lived there with support and compensation
for the lives they were forced to abandon in order to
evacuate.[...]6. The reports by Mr. Anand Grover should be
reflected and considered[...]7. ConclusionAs
stated above, we, the civil society, request that the
United Nations Scientific Committee and the United Nations General
Assembly Forth Committee revise the reports of the United Nations
Scientific Committee from a human rights perspective to
take a more cautious approach with regards to low
level radiation exposure to protect the most vulnerable people based
on careful and sufficient deliberations.

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Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.